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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Egads, people, what is going on at today's baby showers?!? First the boobie cake, then the edible baby, and now this!

Obviously, this is wrong on a level so VERY wrong that it doesn't really need elaboration. However, I feel compelled to point out that the, er, "mom" here has the face of a blow-up doll, is completely nekkid (is that a new trend in delivery rooms?), and is anatomically correct where you wouldn't expect her to be (ergo the censor bars - sorry, fellas!).

I'm picturing the games they played at this baby shower: "Pin the Epidural", "Catch the After-birth", and of course the ever popular "Guess Whose Hoo-Haw?". Yeesh - just what do you suppose the party favors were? No, wait, let's not go there...

(Liz P., thanks for sharing - I think.)

UPDATE: I am both surprised and amused at the number of you moms out there who have let it be known that not only is the whole "nekkid" delivery thing in vogue, but you have partaken of the activity yourself. A little TMI, yes, but I can honestly say I've learned something here. (Never post nekkid fondant figures again. Like, ever.)

I think you need to take the censoring covers off if you're going to show it. It's Art, however frightening and only in puritanical Holy Roller America is a woman's body obscene. Not that this cake isn't a nightmare, but show some respect for freakshows. If you're going to show it, show it all.

zenwaitress, the uncensored photo can be seen on the link in the picture, and all are welcome to view it there. I think you're being pretty generous to call this "art", but on that perhaps we can agree to disagree?

Also, I apologize if the conservative nature of my blog has offended you. That was never the intent, and I certainly never imagined covering up fondant genitals would be construed as showing a lack of respect. To make it up to you, I’ve typed this reply while in the nude. Hope that helps.

Heh heh, found your blog via a chat room and laughed my head off at this cake. Yeah, lots of moms give birth stark naked, though in this day and age they should have included the IV tube and monitor and stuff.

Also, the baby usually emerges face down, not face up.

Actually, I think the bakery employee did a rather nice job, all things considered.

Personally, if it were my cake and I had a choice, I'd rather have this one than the scary realistic baby one that's a few posts down. For one thing, how would you cut the baby one? I'd rather be funny than creepy.

The cake was hilarious... yes, some people have a twisted sense of humor, and more power to 'em!

What I'm curious about is why you'd assume women would WEAR CLOTHES when they're delivering a baby... In labor, sure, strolling around the birth center, but why during delivery? You're in and out of the shower or soaking tub, in most hospitals anyway. It's messy and sweaty and you're adjusting position every five minutes, which would just make you get tangled in a hospital gown, plus as soon as the baby's delivered they plunk the little greasy slimy darling on your chest to nurse. Maybe you're just going by the image of childbirth they show on TV. It's not *really* like TV, though, and the sedated, highly medicalized hospital births of the 1950's (and their correspondingly high rate of complications) are, fortunately, a thing of the past.

I think the real reason for her to be naked is that this is supposed to be a water birth... hence the little waves and the blue color. I dunno about Us, but here in CR water births are real expensive... there's nothing worse that rich people with BAD taste, they can really make your eyes bleed

my clothes stayed on in the delivery room if I had my way so would have my knickers and gee maybe even my dignity might have stayed too :) but now lots of people have seen it and even more nurse have squeezed and pushed my milking nipples..

I am getting this cake for my best friend. So funny...not that I would serve it to her at a SHOWER with other people around, and I would probably have had the bakery put a bikini on the mom. But you know...this is really funny!

Just to add to the censorship debate, I view this at work. I am a huge fan of nakedness and yay for natural childbirth. My boss on the other hand, not so much. Now that I'm home and have seen the real cake. Wow ... Just wow. It's pretty amazing.

Also, I just found this blog thanks to craft mag's posting, and it is great. Can't wait to check back. Often.

Although I cannot claim to be a professional, back in the day I was asked to make many a birthday cake for friend's and their kids. Then there was this one couple - it was his 30th Bday, and she had recently found out that she was not his "one and Only" - so after telling me the whole story, I agreed to help her "surprise" him at his birthday party. A long sheet cake, a round cake cut in half, one peice either side, realistic frosting - pointing directly at him. Anatomically correct for his gender, and describing his behaviour at the same time. LOLOLOL

I think most women don't want any clothes on when they give birth. If you are really giving birth, the openness and effort required are not consonant with feeling that you need to keep covered.

Obstetric comment on the cake; by the time the baby is out that far, there is no need to push.

I think the cake is funny and I would have appreciated it at a baby shower with like minded folk, say, midwives and other natural birth advocates. It wouldn't be appropriate at a shower where you ask your mother and his mother and the girls from the office. Susan Peterson

I think the cake is absolutely hilarious. If anyone if offened by showing of candy and icing external genitalia and breasts (posed in way to depict chilbirth not sexually), then I think people need to lighten up a bit. Thats where babies came from and really what the anatamy was originally designed for. Anyway, I am going to try and get a similar made for my friends baby sore. She will have it after the baby is born so I think she will it as even more comical and I write congratulations on it or something

i think there are other ways to have a fun shower cake without being....that special. i am well aware where babies come from, but grandma and auntie sue do not need to be feasting on part of my breast while i open up packages of onies.

OMG! I used to think it was 'extreme' creating butt cakes, boob cakes and pe&is cakes, but this is too too much! Wow! I can't even imagine the sick bunch of people enjoying this cake??? I hope the cake is not split down the middle with some type of red fruit filling!

Not every "normal" and "natural" event needs to be immortalized in fondant. I mean, there's nothing sexual or naughty about going to the bathroom, either, but I'm not ordering the Watch Me Defecate cake any time soon. Some people just have very Freudian senses of humor, I guess.

I have to make a comment about child birth. I find it quite odd to be totally taken during child birth. I was only naked from the waste down, as that's all that's needed. Yeah I was hot, but didn't continue to shed all of my clothes. Odd .. and yes, I live in CA.

That's seriously gross, but *almost* funny. I'd never be able to eat that cake, though.

BTW - I've had 3 babies and kept myself as covered as possible (with the hospital gown) the whole time. Giving birth did NOT take away my modesty at all. I also do not have a single friend who was naked during childbirth.

ive had 6 children and i can honestly say that i never once got the urge to strip..it was bad enough with all the medical students trying to watch "down there" as if it were cable tv or something! i had a gown on in the front, and in the back with a sheet over myself.

First, I love this site. This is my first visit and I can not stop looking, readig or laughing. Second, this cake is in extremely bad taste. I have a twisted sense of humor, but this is wrong. Who gets the piece with the vag on it? Third, I have given birth four times and NEVER felt the need to get naked. No whirlpool tubs, no drugs or epidurals (ever) and still kept the hospital gown on. There was enough of me hanging out already, I didn't need the girls making an appearance as well.

I have to say - having worked in the medical field, I understand the sense of humor for labor & delivery nurses & this type of cake fits to a tee. Some are saying that kids are born face-down, yes, that is the normal - but both of mine were face up. This type of delivery involves low back pain rather than the spread-out frontal delivery pain. Believe me, it is extremely painful because ALL the pain is in the low back. By the way, I kept clothed for both deliveries Juls

I had a hospital gown on when I gave birth. I didn't have any problems with it at all. I was also put on magnesium for pre-eclampsia which makes you feel HOT all over but I didn't need to take off the gown and it didn't even occur to me to do so at the time.

Childbirth is natural and beautiful, but not everyone is comfortable viewing it. The person who ordered the cake was a L&D nurse so she was probably completely used to this sorta thing. The woman on the cake looks like a barbie doll sorta, though. The legs disturb me somehow. Also the baby looks honkin' big!

I think this cake is actually kinda neat. I am a doula and dream of being a midwife in the next few years, so I think any type of celebration of birth is a good thing. I don't think i could eat it mind you, the idea of eating a birthing woman is kinda strange.

I had a homebirth last year and I couldn't stand the feeling of clothes on my skin. I laboured and birthed completely naked, but I also have at least one hour of naked time a day. I am comfortable in my own skin I guess.

Wow... I'm a little late since I just discovered this wonderful blog, but I just had to say, "good grief"! (Did you like the quotation marks? I'll throw in some more later and maybe I'll even misspell something.)

Anyhoo, I don't know where all these free loving hippie types are coming out of the woodwork to comment on this cake, but I have never been, or ever met, anyone who has been completely naked while giving birth.

I just had my third child last summer and wore a robe all the way to down "there". The only visible parts were the whowho (just barely) and my legs.

I definitely would not want anyone I don't know (nurses), or especially someone I do (my mother-in-law) to see me naked, much less have it replicated on a cake. Ew!!!!! At least put her in a hospital gown for the sake of those that are going to be eating it!

And for the birth of the next baby... we'll feature the afterbirth! You can only imagine the cake they had at the commemoration of the ...circumcision? First bath? Stopping nursing? First time on potty?

Wow, it's amazing how uptight and squeamish people are. I always considered myself to be squeemish, but around a cake? I know, the subject matter makes some people queasy, but despite being "anatomically correct," it is so in such a cartoon-like (non-realistic) way, for me it takes any potential grossness factor out of the picture. When you eat an animal cracker, do you really imagine yourself devouring that entire animal, head an all?

The other thing around the giving birth naked issue that some have alluded to indirectly is that there is no hospital gown in home births, nor in many birth-centers. You might bring your own robe or nightgown you are comfortable with, but one of the stages that most women experience during a natural birth is a loss of inhibition.

Now, sure, if this cake was brought into your standard office, it would be inappropriate, but if it's a group of close friends, even relatives, who are all women and actually meant as funny and yes a bit shocking, then how is it a wreck?

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

This is genius. From just having a baby 2.5 months ago, I remember how much I craved sweets, and I got to take the leftover cake home after my shower. What a great way to ensure that the guest of honor gets to take more cake home! LOL ;)

Yes, many women do give birth naked, myself included. Point #1 - Losing modesty is a symptom of normal labor, #2 - Laboring naked is more comfortable, especially if one is going to be in and out of a shower or labor pool, and #3 - Laboring unclothed is logistically easier, since your lower half has to be open anyway, and it is healthiest and safest for baby to be put immediately on the mother's bare chest after birth for warmth, breastfeeding and snuggling. In fact, I don't know many women who DON'T give birth naked.

While I might not want this for a church shower, I would find it hilarious among intimate friends or birth workers. However, I would object to this cake on the following points: (1) the baby is coming out malpositioned in an occiput posterior position, which makes for lots of uber-yucky back labor - NOT COOL, and (2) the cake just looks like poor quality. I wouldn't want a crummy-quality cake at my shower, regardless of the comment.

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